Introduce yourself, please. I am a visual artist. My main job is photography; it is the medium where I can be most creative and where I feel best. I am self-taught and explore many fields within photography, from portraiture to lifestyle and still life. I can’t select just one, as each teaches me a different perspective – that’s why I consider myself a photographer who adapts to the medium if the medium moves her.Tell us about this amazing place you’ve captured. La Muralla Roja – The Red Wall – is located in the Mediterranean town of Calpe, Spain. It is a very quiet environment with the smell of the sea and eternal summer nights. I remember appreciating a beautiful purple sunset when I took these photos. As soon as you approach the apartment building, you see many posters where the neighbours explain their anger about all the people who come to admire the building and want to photograph it. I’m not surprised – on the day we were there, 10 more photographers wanted to enter. That is why the neighborhood is not very friendly – they want to defend their privacy.What do you love about La Muralla Roja? I always admired the shapes and colours with which it was designed (Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill designed it in 1968). For any visual artist, these shapes are like candy or an amusement park, where your senses explode. The reality of being there ended up exceeding my expectations: once you’re inside, it’s like being in a maze. It’s an almost unreal scenario, and I had a lot of fun creatively.What was your process like for shooting the space? The mobile brand HONOR contacted me to be part of their content-creation team and one of the places I decided to photograph was this spot, as I thought I could get more out of the phone and all the camera modes that come with it. I remember spending an afternoon and a morning there; the buildings transformed according to the light. I would say the hard light of the morning is more interesting because the light and shadows are much stronger. Also, being an extremely photographed and over-exposed place, many photographs of it remain etched in your brain. So I set myself one challenge: take an image that I have not seen before in that environment. That photograph was of the pool with the blue-and-pink building in the background.What is your philosophy when it comes to taking architectural photos? I always say that still photography has taught me to have patience and to improve composition in all aspects. It’s a photographic mode in which you can work alone and that’s something I really like. You only depend on yourself, on your vision. And that’s what gives you the possibility to improve every time.See more from Thais on her website and Instagram.

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